Michael J Gruber wrote: > Hinko Kocevar venit, vidit, dixit 04.03.2009 12:24: >> Hi, >> >> I've recently discovered that my GIT repository is not letting me clone it via git clone git://. >> It works using git clone git@.. (SSH) but with GIT protocol.. >> >> Here is the case: >> hinkok@alala /tmp $ git --version >> git version 1.6.0.6 >> hinkok@alala /tmp $ git clone git://zidar/sdk.git >> Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/sdk/.git/ >> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly >> >> My earlier clone (few months old) has this in .git/config: >> hinkok@alala /work/git/sdk.git $ cat .git/config >> [core] >> repositoryformatversion = 0 >> filemode = true >> bare = false >> logallrefupdates = true >> [remote "origin"] >> url = git@zidar:repositories/sdk.git >> fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* >> [branch "master"] >> remote = origin >> merge = refs/heads/master >> >> >> But I remember cloning via SSH that time, because I needed git push to work, >> but now other developer do not need the SSH access, but only GIT read-only - >> they can only clone, not push. >> >> I do not administer the server git repos is located on, so I must have some >> information before I attack the admin.. > > Sorry in case this is trivial, but has git: access ever worked? It It did. I found this repos on the server that used git to checkout the repo: CETRTAPOT\zidarhw@zidar:~$ cat sdk/.git/config [core] repositoryformatversion = 0 filemode = true bare = false logallrefupdates = true [remote "origin"] url = git://zidar/sdk.git fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/* [branch "master"] remote = origin merge = refs/heads/master > requires a git daemon running on the server, whereas ssh access does not > require that. git@zidar:repositories/sdk.git uses ssh access. > > Michael git-daemon was/is running: CETRTAPOT\zidarhw@zidar:~$ ps -ef | grep git root 3207 1 0 14:15 ? 00:00:00 runsvdir -P /etc/service log: d user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'?chown: invalid user: `gitlog:adm'? root 3208 3207 0 14:15 ? 00:00:00 runsv git-daemon root 3373 3208 0 14:16 ? 00:00:00 git-daemon --verbose --base-path=/var/cache /var/cache/git 11418 3399 2762 0 14:16 pts/0 00:00:00 grep git But after doing: /etc/init.d/git-daemon stop /etc/init.d/git-daemon start Nothing much happened (this is on Ubuntu 8.04.1)! After a while I managed to get git-daemon to die properly - '/etc/init.d/git-daemon stop' didn't do that. After '/etc/init.d/git-daemon start' the git clone git://.. works! hinkok@alala /tmp $ git clone git://zidar/sdk.git Initialized empty Git repository in /tmp/sdk/.git/ remote: Counting objects: 62636, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (49201/49201), done. Receiving objects: 40% (25055/62636), 59.97 MiB | 11069 KiB/s Thank your for the 'obvious' I haven't checked myself! Best regards, Hinko -- Hinko Kočevar, OSS developer ČETRTA POT, d.o.o. Planina 3, 4000 Kranj, SI EU tel ++386 (0) 4 280 66 03 e-mail hinko.kocevar@xxxxxxxxxxxx http www.cetrtapot.si -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html